Brad McDonald and several relatives met with experts a couple times through the years and donated DNA samples to help with the investigation to identify his uncle, Herbert Jacobson.
In 2018, he was told, "We're going to do our best, but chances are we aren't going to be able to identify then [the remains] in your time and maybe into your children's time."
"Less than a year later, I got a phone call saying, 'We got 'em,' " Brad McDonald remembered. "I was just blown away. I really was. We are just extremely grateful to the Navy and all the agencies working on this. ...They did this painstaking process, and it was amazing."
Continued in my Tattooed On Your Soul: World War II blog.
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